B1 – Intermediate
The number of grown-ups who are living at home is continually increasing in different countries in the world.
This article talks about the underlying reasons regarding the issue. Some advantages and disadvantages are also discussed by different individuals from different countries.
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Discussion Questions:
1. Is living at home a good or bad point in your own perspective?
2. Do people in your place share the same issue (grown-up and living at home) with people from other parts of the world?
3. What do you think parents and children should do to address this issue?
15 replies on “Grown-Up and Living at Home”
For me is a bad point because indicates bad economy country or bad preparatios of young people. People wants to get an accommodation in its life.
In Spain and in majority of first world doesn’t happend, however I from latam and that is so common.
The best way is to inspire to their kids to get a good carrer or a job well paid and demanded.
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1. Is living at home a good or bad point in your own perspective?
If you are single and you are studying or you need more time for your personal projects and you are single, is good point for a short period of time, sometimes, everyone need help. But I think you can´t grow up while you depend on your parents. You need know how earn money and how spend money.
If you are married, you need privacy of home winth your couple. You need organize the other way for get more time. In that case, it isn´t a good idea live at home with your parents.
2. Do people in your place share the same issue (grown-up and living at home) with people from other parts of the world?
Here, in Spain, it is frequently look people living with their parents. The price of house, to buy or to rent, are very expensive, and depend on the salaries it´s very difficult be able to access this. According to statistics, about 55,0% of young people between 25 and 29 years old, lived with their parents or with one of them, in the year 2020 .
3. What do you think parents and children should do to address this issue?
I really believe that financial education from a very early age is a good starting point.
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1. Is living at home a good or bad point in your own perspective?
It depends on the situation of each person. I think that all people should be able to decide if it is good o bad living at home,alone or with your parents and family.
2. Do people in your place share the same issue (grown-up and living at home) with people from other parts of the world?
Yes, it is the same problem in my country. Each generation takes longer to become independent
3. What do you think parents and children should do to address this issue?
Honestly, I don’t have idea.
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In my opinion, living at home with your parents when you are an adult is not a good thing. It´s a great experience when you live in your own place, it gives you responsabilities, privacy and freedom. If you can not afford the cost of renting or buying an accomodation, maybe you don´t have a choice, but this is not a good sintom. Something is wrong with our system if young people can´t find a job.
And also is not good when accomadation is so expensive that people can´t buy or rent their own houses. Maybe owners shouldn´t abuse that much, and also, how many houses are empty?
In my place we share the same issue, but is very common to rent an accomadation with other young people instead of staying at your parents’ home.
Finally, if you have to stay with your parents because you don´t have a choice, then you could do some housework, if your parents let you!!
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1. I think is a bad point if you are living with your parents because you are not able to live on your own. Most of the cases of young people living with their parents are because they can’t afford rent or buy a house, even if they want to.
2. Yes, it is. In Spain, young people usually have problems finding a good job and earning enough money to rent or buy a house.
3. Trying to be comprehensive with his children and supporting them.
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1. I don´t think it has to be just a bad or good point. I think it really depends on the relationship you share with your family. There are young people that don´t have a good environment at home and prefer not to share their space with them. On the opposite, there are other ones that enjoy sharing time and space with their family after work, although they can have a perfectly independent routine by their own.
2. Not really. In USA for example, teenagers move to their parents house at a very young age, when they go to college. Meanwhile in Spain, can be very difficult to find a cheap rental flat to move at that age and they have to stay longer at their family home.
3. Giving their kids more independency and responsabilities towards their own space. you can share their space but everyone has their right to set that kind of boundaries to be able to manage a personal space, whether if is a flat or a room.
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1. Is living at home a good or bad point in your own perspective?.
It has positive and negative points. It allows people to save cash and looking for a good job before going to live alone. As a bad point, people usually have less independence when they live at parents home.
2. Do people in your place share the same issue (grown-up and living at home) with people from other parts of the world?
Yes it does. Young people use to have problems to find their first employment in this part of the world.
3. What do you think parents and children should do to address this issue?.
Be respectful which all of them it’s definitely a main thing for having a good live when people live together (parents with children).
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Young people use to have problems to find their first employment in this part of the world.
I think there are a couple of reasons which explain this phenomenon, firstly is more difficult to leave the parent´s house due to the difficult to buy or rent a house- The reasons are the high prices on the real estate and the decrease of salaries.
On the other hand a high percentage of youg people prefer to live with his parents because they seem and feel themselves like kids, they aren´t hurry to look for his adult life. The parents seem aren´t not interested in thath his kids are getting a life as adults.
In my opinion the result of this situation will be bad for everyone: Grandparents living like if they´re 20 years yonger and kids living like babys.
Summarizing nobody want accept the real age.